Chris Kidwell

“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“Proper loafing requires company. One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Men like power, and they love controlling something powerful.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wildness that he sought. It was a freedom and a goodness, a hope and a vigor that he perceived to underlie all the familiar things of his life, which were not free or good or hopeful or vigorous. What he sought was the source and preserver of his world, a world which seemed to turn ever in fear away from its source, rather than search it out, as the prairie grass around him sent down its fibered roots into the rich dark dampness, the Wildness, and thereby renewed itself, year after year.”
― John Williams, Butcher's Crossing